Aspideretoides superstes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AspideretoidesPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Cryptodira
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Cryptodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cryptodira
Time the record covers
At least 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.
6 occurrences of Aspideretoides superstes on record, most of them in the Paleocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous17%
- Paleocene83%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Aspideretoides superstes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aspideretoides superstes and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Aspideretoides superstes and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Adocus lineolatus1 site
- Anzu wyliei1 site
- Axestemys infernalis1 site
- Baenidae1 site
- Basilemys sinuosa1 site
- Chelydroidea1 site
- Cocculus flabella1 site
- Compsemys victa1 site
- Dicotyledoneae1 site
- Dryophyllum1 site
- Fagaceae1 site
- Hutchemys sterea1 site
- Judithemys1 site
- Leepierceia preartocarpoides1 site
- Mollusca1 site
- Osteopygis backmani1 site
- Pachycephalosauria1 site
- Taxodium1 site
- Trochodendroides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aspideretoides superstes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- New turtles from the Paleogene of North America3
- A new species of trionychid turtle, Axestemys infernalis sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek and Lance formations of the Northern Great Plains, USA1
- Non-trionychid turtles from the Paleocene of Alberta, Canada1
- A new species of Aspideretes from the Paskapoo Formation of Alberta1
Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aspideretoides superstes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aspideretoides superstes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aspideretoides superstes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAspideretoides through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Russell 1930)